Re: Passwd format?

From: Christian Kratzer <ck-lists_at_cksoft.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:04:14 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <4196398D.2030000_at_fer.hr>, Ivan Voras writes:
>> 
>>> The Handbook and crypt(3) say passwords in master.passwd are MD5 hashes 
>>> if they start with $1$, for example:
>>> 
>>> $1$DP.s8oCc$VJo0/026/S5ng6HlD1Sz8/
>>> 
>>> the format is $1$salt$rest. I have several questions:
>>> 
>>> How are the values encoded? This looks something like base64.
>
>> Search for "md5crypt.c" in google and you'll find the source.
>
> This looks like it:
> http://mia.ece.uic.edu/cgi-bin/lxr/http/source/md5crypt.c?v=openssh-3.5p1
>
> It seems it's definitely NOT reusable in LDAP :(

openldap handles md5 password hashes out of the box. 
See the slapd.conf man page for details.

Greetings
Christian

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